The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2023 Curci Ph.D. Scholars. The Curci Foundation worked with the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington, each of which selected incoming Ph.D. students in Life Sciences to receive funding to assist with tuition and living expenses.

University of California Berkeley

Simran Bawa

Department: Integrative Biology

Eway Cai

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Xiuyuan Cheng

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Jason Hu

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Dorra Jedoui

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

Juliana Lee

Department: Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California San Diego

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Wanning Cui

Department: Biological Sciences

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Deborah Kutner

Department: Biological Sciences

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Shuozhi Liu

Department: Biological Sciences

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Weronika Matysik

Department: Biological Sciences

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SungWoo Park

Department: Biological Sciences

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Abhinaya Pathak

Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

University of California San Francisco

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Brenda Ametepe

Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley

Haoyu Fan

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Tayma Handal

Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

Nikhita Kirthivasan

Department: Biomedical Sciences

Chloe Kong

Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley

Chang Liu

Department: Tetrad

University of Colorado Boulder

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Oscar Cordova

Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

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Sofi Leon Gonzalez

Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

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Norah Nyangau

Department: Integrative Physiology

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Coralie Phanord

Department: Psychology and Neuroscience

Negar Rahimi

Department: Physiology

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Sen Wang

Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

University of Utah

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Tara Buzinski

Department: Biological Chemistry

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Nicole Lacey

Department: Mathematics

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Hannah Meier

Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Laurence Saint Pierre

Department: Biomedical Engineering

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Brooklyn Vargas

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Chuang Zhang

Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics

University of Washington

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Richmond Kwane Boateng

Department: Biochemistry

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Sophia Chioma Chima

Department: Global Health

Yufei Gao

Department: Bioengineering

Zeidy Garcia

Department: Microbiology

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Olivia Waltner

Department: Genome Sciences

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Ruowei Zhu

Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology